Teaching with Inquiry:
Increasing Student Engagement across Disciplines
Our latest book was published in June 2023 by Rowman & Littlefield.
Inquiry Learning is an innovative, hands-on, and collaborative approach to student learning. The Inquiry Learning Model shifts the heavy cognitive lifting from the teacher to the student. Documents and artifacts are used to provoke deep analysis and hone critical-thinking skills as students work in teams to interpret and connect clues to solve a mystery. A detailed step-by-step methodology is provided as well as six multidisciplinary lessons. Lessons are suitable for collaborative teaching or stand alone in discipline specific classes. For example, Exploitation and Immortality: The Story of Henrietta Lacks, is a lesson that can be used in the science, social studies, English or math classroom, or a combination of any of these disciplines. In addition to the methodology and lessons, Teaching with Inquiry includes differentiation strategies to adapt lessons to all learners, suggestions for lesson use in multiple disciplines, and a variety of graphic organizers to help students organize, process, and summarize the information throughout the lesson.
The Inquiry Learning Model methodology originated with a group of National Board Certified Teachers interested in using discovery teaching across their disciplines. Their work started with an exploration of the Suchman Inquiry Model, developed by Richard Suchman at the University of Chicago in the 1960s. His elementary science methodology was a jumping off point for years of experimentation and field work, the result of which is the Inquiry Learning Model or ILM. Since its development, the ILM has been presented at over fifty conferences around the world as well as published in research articles and three books. The ILM is a creative, fun, and robust teaching method that both you and your students will enjoy.
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